Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ?

Re:Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ? by jfarmer on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @12:50PM (#1213374)

http://kissmetrics.com/ is the most similar product.

R is a programming language with huge number of data analytics libraries. It's not really an alternative any more than, say, Python is an alternative.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ? by mtarnovan on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @03:21PM (#1213799)

I've used R before, exactly for graphing some data for this app, so I can say - no, it's not like Python or any other general use language. You can't really do a scatter plot from a csv file in Python in one line.

For example, have a look here: http://www.statmethods.net/graphs/scatterplot.html and observe how little code you must write to get those graphs.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ? by barmstrong on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @01:52PM (#1213547)

We switched to KissMetric's beta product and have been pretty happy with it. Doesn't support importing data though I don't think.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ? by kylemathews on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @02:23PM (#1213631)

I'm pretty sure you can with KISSMetrics. They have a PHP/Ruby API where you can set the dates for stuff. Just run all your old event data through the api setting the dates when they actually happened.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ? by calvarez on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @04:35PM (#1213954)

You can, but we'd really like to talk with you to understand more about what you're trying to do (if it's a valid use case for you, it probably is for others, and we want to make sure we get it).

Email calvarez at kissmetrics.com and I can help you get started.

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Re:Ask HN: Any alternatives to Mixpanel ? by suhail on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @01:03PM (#1213399)

I don't believe kiss lets you import data either but maybe there's a way.

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